Welcome to Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages!

This page collects all additional essays on J.R.R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth that have not been included in the books. You know, some collectors prefer to have anything related to Tolkien standing in their bookshelves. Hence, I have collected expanded and updated versions of the histories of the lesser Men of Middle-earth, on Adûnaic and Westron and on astronomy and calendar reckoning in illustrated books that are available both as ebooks and in print.

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Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2016

Maps created for "Middle-earth seen by the barbarians"

For the full-colour edition of this book, I have redrawn the whole set of maps included in "Middle-earth seen by the barbarians" that show the movements and settlements of barbarian peoples in the First to Third Age. On the new page "Global maps" I include the basic maps on which these others are based.

The Silmarillion map is fitted to the LotR map at the same scale.
Turquoise river courses and the shorelines south of the isle of Balar
are conjectural, though along the Bay of Belfalas supported by evidence
given in HoMe XII. For simplicity's sake, the transition from Arda Flat
to Arda Round has been ignored, as has the alleged extension of forests
in the First Age of the sun.
There is some doubt to whether the Ice-Bay of Forochel really existed in the Second Age.

Note that the map of Númenor as published in UT gives a wrong
impression: the surface of Númenor is actually as large as Beleriand!

Europe overlaid on the LotR map, based on Tolkien's assertion that Hobbiton is at thelatitude (and, implicitly, longitude) of Oxford